The Senate has set the date for the confirmation vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Monday. According to The Hill: The Senate will vote Monday on confirming President Trump‘s nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to the Supreme Court. “With regard to the Supreme Court justice … we’ll be voting to confirm justice-to-be Barrett next Monday,” Senate Majority
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two key immigration cases involving President Trump’s policies. One involved the asylum policy of “remain in Mexico” and the other involved funding for the border wall. According to Fox News: One case involves the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy, and the other deals with funding for
President Trump has asked the United States Supreme Court to shield his tax records from investigators. According to The Hill: President Trump on Tuesday filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking the justices to shield his tax records from a New York grand jury subpoena. The filing from Trump’s personal attorneys marks the second
In a major act of political foot-stomping Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is refusing to meet with President Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. According to The Hill: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that he will not meet with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump‘s third Supreme Court pick. Democrats are weighing whether
The GOP is taking a case to limit mail-in voting in Pennsylvania to the Supreme Court in the first post-Ginsburg case. According to The Hill: Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a major Pennsylvania state court ruling that extended the due date for mail ballots in the key battleground state, teeing up
President Trump announced a new list of possible Supreme Court picks on Wednesday, and included among them were Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Tom Cotton. All three responded to the President’s move. According to The Daily Wire: The new list, which is an expansion to the existing list, features a mixture of judges, ambassadors,
The Supreme Court refused to allow the Democrats to speed up their legal battle to obtain President Trump’s financial information. According to The Washington Free Beacon: The decision means that the chances of congressional investigators obtaining Trump’s financial records ahead of the November election, which were already remote, are even lower. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was
The Federal Government has put a convicted child killer to death. The execution becomes the first time the federal government has put a prisoner to death in 17 years. According to The Washington Free Beacon: White nationalist and child murderer Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death Tuesday morning, following a late-night wave of legal
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision upheld DACA dealing a major blow to President Trump. According to The Hill: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to block the Trump administration from ending an Obama-era program that shields nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation, upending a key feature of President Trump’s immigration agenda. In a
The Supreme Court has ruled that the US Government (US Taxpayers) owe healthcare insurers billions of dollars due to Obamacare. According to The Hill: The 8-1 decision on the $12 billion risk corridor program is a victory for insurers, but comes well after the funding could have had an impact on the ObamaCare law. The
